Emmett Williams: A Valentine for Noël, Four Variations on a Scheme (Something Else Press, 1973) Smart Museum arresting or ironic—sometimes at the

arresting or ironic—sometimes at the same time

The book was produced for the first exhibition of Butzer's work at the Machin-Mode gallery in Berlin

"Hovering somewhere between research and speculative fiction

he then dabs on a blend of oil

Emmett Williams: A Valentine for Noël, Four Variations on a Scheme (Something Else Press, 1973) Smart Museum arresting or ironic—sometimes at the20 x 15 cm ISBN: 0871101076 One of 2,000 copies The four poems in this book are each driven by different visual and conceptual engines, the most elaborate of which is spelled out in a rather apologetic letter of explanation as a preface to IBM. In the included Ego Hego Shego, Soldier, and Fte Duchamptre, letter pressed visual puns make use of color, fragmented text, and flip book like movements to produce a dynamic set of visual poems.